Bone Tomahawk's reviews
Media reviews
The Playlist
Bone Tomahawk is a proper Western, a proper horror movie, and by combining the two, becomes something else entirely, and proves hugely enjoyable for it.
Empire
It has a nice line in wry chatter and a pleasantly old-fashioned ?lost posse? plot with engaging, odd characters striving against the wilderness while swapping cynical frontier wisdom.
Vulture
Bone Tomahawk is terrifying and strange, to be sure, but it?s the old-fashioned veneer that makes it beautiful.
Variety
Bone Tomahawk may seem over-indulgent at 132 minutes, yet it?s the wayward digressions of Zahler?s script ? navigated with palpable enjoyment by an expert, Kurt Russell-led ensemble ? that are most treasurable in a film that commits wholeheartedly to its own curiosity value.
Entertainment Weekly
I doubt there?s a huge audience for a movie like Bone Tomahawk, but those who find it may turn it into a new cult classic.
Los Angeles Times
Zahler's still starkness, enhanced by a fondness for long shots and dark spaces, is refreshing in this shaky-cam era, and his ear for Old West sensibilities ? from the mythically polite to the realistically xenophobic ? is clinically effective.
New York Times
Mr. Russell is far from the only reason to see this unexpected low-budget treat, a witty fusion of western, horror and comedy that gallops to its own beat. That rhythm is dictated entirely by the writer and director, S. Craig Zahler, a novelist and musician who flips genre conventions upside-down and cares more about character than body count.
Screen Daily
A cult item par excellence, Bone Tomahawk does for the Western what Gareth Edwards did for Monsters. Long, slow and low-budget, Bone Tomahawk is also disturbingly tense, hyper-violent, and destined to attract an adoring fanboy following.
The Hollywood Reporter
Though the film stretches out long enough to impress us with the difficulty of their journey, the four actors ensure that the two hours or so we spend in their company aren't dull.
The A.V. Club
S. Craig Zahler?s horror-Western hybrid Bone Tomahawk is a strange movie, one that might take more than one watch to fully understand. Not that it?s deliberately obscure, or has a plot too complicated to follow the first time around. It?s actually a pretty straightforward film, albeit one filled with eccentric choices.